The House of Saud paranoia by Pepe Escobar

[Jefferson23]

July 7, 2011

A very quiet summit recently took place at a North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) base in Molesworth, in the United Kingdom. Facing the British was none other than Prince Turki al-Faisal, former director general of Saudi Arabia's feared Mukhabarat (intelligence services), and once a very close friend of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Prince Turki was there to explain the House of Saud's take on the great 2011 Arab revolt. In a nutshell; he told the British - and the Americans - to forget their silly ideas about "democracy". This was all an Iranian plot.

The deployment of Saudi Arabian troops in Bahrain and Yemen, and the deployment of Wahhabi mercenaries in Libya and Syria was nothing other than tools to fight in ideological combat - and engage in hardcore repression - against the spread of Shi'ite Iran's influence.



The icing in this desert cake is the ongoing transformation of the Gulf Cooperation Council - in fact now a Gulf Counter-Revolution Cub - into an alliance of Sunni monarchies, with the incorporation of Jordan and Morocco to current members Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

The House of Saud remains the proverbial staunch ally of the Washington/London "special relationship" - its petrodollars ($300 billion in oil revenues in 2011, made possible by owing 12% of global oil production) buying everyone in sight from Egypt to Libya and Palestine, while Arab al-Qaeda-linked networks merrily bolster the uprisings in both Libya and Syria.



in full: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MG07Ak01.html

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Wow! The House of Saud has the same take on it as Glenn Beck!

Who would thunk it?

[Poll_Blind]

2. Pepe Escobar for the WIN! And in Asia Times, no less.

Those two, as I have said many times before, are excellent sources of information and analysis.

PB

[Jefferson23]

3. He has stayed on top of things for some time..always worth a read..yep. n/t

[yurbud]

4. with friends like this, who needs enemies like al Qaeda? Oh wait, they support al Qaeda...

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/03/foia-doc-shows-911commission-lied-about.html